NCAA Tabs 11 Crimson Fencers for Championship in San Antonio

Mar 12, 2013

The NCAA Selection Committee announced the 2013 championship
field today (Gil Talbot).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –

For the fourth consecutive season, the Harvard fencing
program is sending at least 11 competitors to the NCAA
Championship. The field of 144 student-athletes that was announced
today included six Crimson men and five Crimson women. The 2013
NCAA Fencing Championship will take place March 21-24, with the men
opening the tournament over two days and the women closing out the
weekend.

Harvard qualified the maximum number of student-athletes (2) in
five of the six weapons: men's epee, foil and sabre and the women's
epee and sabre. Two schools (Notre Dame and Princeton) will send 12
entrants, while Penn State, Ohio State, Columbia and St. John's
will also send 11. The men's side is currently ranked third in the
nation, while the women's team is seventh.

At the Northeast Regional on Sunday, the Crimson collected five
medals and 13 top-10 finishes. Kaneshige captured gold, Vaggo and
Ryjik claimed silver, while Woo and Kiefer earned bronze.

At the 2012 NCAA Championship, the men garnered six All-American
honors, while the women tallied two. Harvard took sixth place, as
the team title is awarded as a coed team.

Badger finished in sixth place in the 2012 NCAA Championship,
earning second-team All-American honors in the epee, while Raynis
took 18th in the same weapon. Ryjik and Kaneshige received an
All-American honorable mention after placing 12th in the sabre
and foil, respectively. Arzoian took 18th in the
sabre.

Kiefer took 11th and was a honorable mention All-American
at the national tournament in 2012. The foil won an individual
national championship as a freshman in 2011. As first-year
collegians in 2012, Vaggo placed 14th in the epee and Lee
finished 17th in the sabre.

For more information on the 2013 NCAA Fencing Championship, please
visit ncaa.com.